By Becky Walz,
It was a big day in Decorah Saturday with the Vikings (16-5) defeating Ottumwa (14-10) and South Winn (12-5) at home in a triangular.
It was a big day in Decorah Saturday with the Vikings (16-5) defeating Ottumwa (14-10) and South Winn (12-5) at home in a triangular.
Extra inning
It took eight innings for the Vikings to best Ottumwa in the opener Saturday, defeating the Bulldogs, 14-13, on a solo homer by Kaden Alstad.
“Our kids really competed in their at-bats throughout this game giving kids like Keenan Tyler an opportunity to come up with multiple big two out hits to give us a chance to win this ball game. Dane Frieden was outstanding in relief,” said Coach Adam Riley.
Decorah had 14 hits in the game including Alstad’s home run. Tyler went 5-for-5 at the plate with two doubles and drove in seven runs. Other extra-base hits were collected by Noah Storts, Sam Kleiner and Ethan Holthaus.
R H
Ottumwa 0 4 2 2 0 5 0 0 13 14
Decorah 0 1 1 5 1 5 0 1 14 13
Dane Frieden (WP) – 3IP, 3R, 3H, 2BB; Landon Kuennen (RP) – 2IP, 6R, 5H, 1K; Fisher Tweten (RP) – 3IP, 4R, 5H, 1BB, 1K
HR – Kaden Alstad 1; 2B – Keenan Tyler 2; Noah Storts 1; Sam Kleiner 1; Ethan Holthaus 1; 1B – Tyler 3; Kleiner 1; Alstad 1; Ben Wymer 1; Tweten 1; RBI – Tyler 7; Kleiner 2; Alstad 2; Storts 1; SB – Tyler 1
SW falls to Ottumwa
Ottumwa started game two of the day with revenge on its mind and took control of the game 8-1 by the end of the first frame. The Bulldogs tacked on three in the fourth and ended the game in five frames by the 10-run mercy rule, 11-1.
The Warriors had five hits in the game, led by Nick Holien and Carson Streeter with a double apiece. Also rapping out hits were Tony Greve, Sam Conway and Dayten Ondrashek with Greve driving in South Winn’s lone run.
Climbing the hill for SW was Keagen Streeter and Kole Hageman.
R H
Ottumwa 1 7 0 3 0 x x x 11 8
S. Winn 1 0 0 0 0 x x x 1 5
Keagen Streeter (LP) – 2IP, 8R, 5H, 2BB; Kole Hageman (RP) – 2IP, 3R, 3H, 1BB, 2K
2B – Nick Holien 1; Carson Streeter 1; 1B – Tony Greve 1; Sam Conway 1; Dayten Ondrashek 1; RBI – Greve 1
Besting the Warriors
It was a tough day for the Warriors defensively and allowing some big innings early in both games put them in a deficit they couldn’t overcome as Decorah defeated SW, 7-2, to end the day.
“When we are playing at a high level, we pitch and defend to keep us in games and try to manufacture runs on offense. Our guys did a good job of competing all day long regardless of the score and I was encouraged by our offense getting double digit hits in the second game which hopefully leads to a sign of good things to come with another big week of games coming up,” said SW coach Alex Smith.
R H
S. Winn 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 8
Decorah 0 2 3 0 0 2 x 7 10
Decorah stats
Tyler (WP) – 3-2/3IP, 2H, 1BB, 7K; Brady Stille (RP) – 3-1/3IP, 2R, 6H, 1BB, 2K
HR – Alstad 1; 1B – Tyler 2; Storts 2; Stille 1; Holthaus 1; Jacob Pipho 1; Alstad 1; Brady Bohner 1; RBI – Alstad 2; SB – Tyler 1; Storts 1
South Winn stats
Holien (LP) – 4-2/3IP, 5R, 6H, 2BB, 6K; Jordan Buchheit (RP) – 2/3IP, 2R, 2H, 2K; Lane Quandahl (RP) – 2/3IP, 1K
2B – C. Streeter 1; Jamie Kuennen 1; 1B – Logan Hageman 2; Holien 1; Greve 1; K. Hageman 1; Conway 1; Ondrashek 1; Jordan Baumler 1; RBI – C. Streeter 1; SB – K. Hageman 1
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